As promised in January (!), the revision to this week’s focus:
Text/Textile/Wearable
In our continued exploration of nonstandard text technologies or how we write ourselves in spaces and materials beyond the page (or screen), we turn to wearable technology. In our google drive you will find the introduction and chapters 3, 4, and 5 from Susan Ryan’s Garments of Paradise: Wearable Discourse in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2014). Many of these pages include full-page images which might be more legible on the screen than printed out from PDF. Chapter titles include “Introduction” (1-14), “The Invisible Interface” (95-132) “The Material Interface” (133-192), and “The Critical Interface” (134-193).
If possible, please have at-hand conductive thread, Lilypad Dev board, LEDs, Lilypad battery holder, a microB USB adaptor, and battery as well as some selected fabric or a textile object (such as a hat, etc) or your cross stitch. Any of these items can be ordered on amazon (and prime will trim the time to delivery). BUT if you DO NOT have some or all of these parts, that’s absolutely fine. You can follow along and then complete the project afterwards.
Textual Practice: Paul on Mindmapping (Paul will email you with a link to an app for which he would like you to make an account). Paul writes, “Tony Buzan said this about mind maps: Mind maps harness the full range of cortical skills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, color, and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquely powerful manner.” Mind maps are a textual practice in that they permit an author/creator to combine visual and written (in words) descriptions of ideas in a unique way that demonstrates their inter-relationships.” Here is a link to Paul’s slides:
Materials and Week12slides:
LilyPad Coin Cell Battery Holder for CR2032 – With Switch $1.95
Adafruit Stainless Conductive Thread $2.95
LilyPad Arduino – LilyPad Development Main Board approximately $14.95
some Lilypad LEDs (no specific number needed) $3.50
Battery $1.95
Needles $1.95
USB MicroB $5-6
Keep in mind that your final paper Annotated Bibliography & Abstract/Paper Proposal is due anywhere between “Week Twelve. No later than Week Thirteen, the day of our class meeting. Due in your Google Drive Submission Folder. Once you upload it, send Dr. Konkol an email to indicate that you are ready for response”
Digital Methods
How Scholars Read / Radiant Textuality Jerome McGann with Lisa Samuels “Deformance and Interpretation” (105-117) PDF http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jjm2f/old/deform.html ; “The Alice Fallacy; or, Only God Can Make a Tree,” (29-52) PDF in Radiant Textuality http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/jjm2f/old/alicefallacy.htm ,
David Hoover “Hot Air Textuality: Literature after Jerome McGann” (71-103) PDF from Text Technology 2.2005 http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/~texttech/pdf/vol14_2/hoover14-2.pdf ;
Wallace Stevens “The Snowman,” Joyce Kilmer “Trees” Poetry 1912.